A Look Back At A Young Writer Named Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway In Toronto



Graeme Bayliss at the Torontoist offers a piece on how a certain young writer named Hemingway got his start in Toronto.

Ernest Hemingway is the most prominent writer ever to have called Toronto home, however reluctant he was to recognize the city as such. He didn't achieve fame until the 1926 publication of  The Sun Also Rises, two years after he quit his post at the Toronto Daily Star and moved to Paris. Nevertheless, his life in Toronto and the journalistic work he produced here offer an interesting - if unflattering - glimpse of postwar Toronto in all its sanctimonious frigidity. Not only that, but Hemingway's dispatches for the Star make evident the evolution of the writer's signature terse, bold prose.         

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://torontoist.com/2012/03/in-our-town-ernest-hemingway-in-toronto/

The above photo is of the book cover By-Line Hemingway, which offers some of Hemingway's pieces for the Toronto Star.  

Note: You can also read an earlier post on a book of Hemingway's Paris dispatches for the Toronto Star via the below link:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2010/09/hemingway-on-paris-ernest-hemingways.html

On Hemingway: Paul Hendrickson and William Kennedy Talk About Their Books On Ernest Hemingway

 

I'm a huge admirer of Ernest Hemingway's novels and short stories, so I was sorry that I was unable to hear William Kennedy, author of Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, and Paul Hendrickson, author of Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961, discuss Hemingway and their books about the late great writer at the Philadelphia Free Library earlier this month.

Fortunately, I was able to listen to the two authors via the library's audio podcast.

You can listen to the MP3 audio of the author event via the below link:

http://libwww.freelibrary.org/authorevents/podcast.cfm?podcastID=690

Frank Wilson, my friend and former Philadelphia Inquirer editor, did a fine job of introducing the two authors.

I read Hemingway's Boat and I found Paul Hendrickson's book to be interesting and insightful and William Kennedy's Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes is next on my list of books to read.

Ernest Hemingway, Reporter

 

PopMatters.com offers an interesting piece on the journalism of the late, great novelist and short story writer, Ernest Hemingway.

The piece mentions By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, a collection of Hemingway's newspaper and magazine pieces. I have a copy of the book in my library and it offers an interesting glimpse of Hemingway, young and old, and an interesting glimpse of Hemingway's times.

The piece also introduces readers to a web site called Byliners.com, where you can read Hemingway and other writers.

You can read the PopMatters.com piece on Hemingway via the below link:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/146786-ernest-hemingway-reporter/

Hemingway In A New Light 50 Years After His Death

On the anniversary of Hemingway's death, Reed Johnson offers a piece at the Los Angeles Times that notes:

Ernest Hemingway's two competing personas — the hard-living macho man and the bohemian writer whose style influenced many other authors — have something to teach today's men, as evidenced in some new books and an HBO film.

You cna read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-hemingway-20110702,0,3840324.story?track=icymi

You can also read an earlier post on Hemingway via the below link:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2011/06/hem-and-us.html   

Hemingway On Paris: Ernest Hemingway's Paris Dispatches From The Toronto Star

Oliver Cussen reviewed the new collection of author Ernest Hemingway's earliest published writings, Ernest Hemingway On Paris, for the New Statesman.

The pieces are Hemingway's contributions to The Toronto Star when he was the newspaper's Paris correspondent in the 1920s.

"Aficionados will recognise the nascent pith and verve of his writing," Cullen wrote. "But these articles represent so much more than the baby steps of a future literary giant; they are the remnants of a lost generation of foreign reporting."

You can read the review via the below link:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/09/hemingway-lost-foreign

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The book, published by the Hesperus Press (photo of book cover above) sounds as if it would make a good companion to By-Line Ernest Hemingway, published by Scribner's some years ago.